The Humbling (2014) on Netflix
Simon Axler is an aging stage actor whose mind is failing. After a breakdown on Broadway, he returns home and falls into an affair with Pegeen, the daughter of old friends.
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Plot summary
A breakdown during a Broadway performance lands Simon Axler in an institution, and when he returns home his thoughts turn to ending his life the way Ernest Hemingway did. Pegeen, the bisexual daughter of his old friends Asa and Carol Stapleford, comes into his life, and the two begin an affair. She is much younger than he is, and he finds it difficult to keep pace with her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Humbling (2014)
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- Barry Levinson refused the backers' conditions on The Humbling and lost, by his own estimate, about $6 million, so the film was shot in increments with breaks built around Al Pacino's schedule, a new experience for the director.
